National Academy of Engineering Elects 84 Members and 22 Foreign Members

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Wed, February 08, 2017

Washington, DC, February 08, 2017 —

WASHINGTON — The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) has elected 84 new members and 22 foreign members, announced NAE President C.D. (Dan) Mote Jr. today. This brings the total U.S. membership to 2,281 and the number of foreign members to 249.

Election to the National Academy of Engineering is among the highest professional distinctions accorded to an engineer. Academy membership honors those who have made outstanding contributions to "engineering research, practice, or education, including, where appropriate, significant contributions to the engineering literature" and to "the pioneering of new and developing fields of technology, making major advancements in traditional fields of engineering, or developing/ implementing innovative approaches to engineering education."

Individuals in the newly elected class will be formally inducted during a ceremony at the NAE’s annual meeting in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 8, 2017. A list of the newly elected members and foreign members follows, with their primary affiliations at the time of election and a brief statement of their principal engineering accomplishments.

New Members

Allen, David T., Melvin H. Gertz Regents Chair in Chemical Engineering, McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Texas, Austin. For contributions to improving air quality and for developments in sustainable engineering education and practice.

Arruda, Ellen M., professor, macromolecular science and engineering, department of mechanical engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. For pioneering research in polymer and tissue mechanics and their application in innovative commercial products.

Boger, David Vernon, professor, department of chemical engineering, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia. For discoveries and fundamental research on elastic and particulate fluids and their application to waste minimization in the minerals industry.

Bose, Arindam, consultant in business organization, biotechnology, bioengineering, and biosimilars, AbiologicsB LLC, Pawcatuck, Conn. For innovations in the manufacture of biologics and service to the professional society organizations that represent the biopharmaceutical industry.

Bose, Bimal K., consultant and emeritus professor, department of electrical engineering and computer science, University of Tennessee, Knoxville. For contributions to advancing power electronics technology and power conversion and education.

Bostick, Thomas P., senior vice president, environment sector, Intrexon Corp., Germantown, Md. For development of new approaches to hurricane protection and for leadership of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

Boulanger, Ross W., professor and director, Center for Geotechnical Engineering, department of civil and environmental engineering, University of California, Davis. For contributions to geotechnical earthquake engineering and the development of procedures for evaluating seismic behavior of soil-structure systems.

Budnitz, Robert J., staff scientist, earth sciences division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley. For advancement of seismic probabilistic risk assessments and their application to nuclear power facilities.

Ceder, Gerbrand, Chancellor’s Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, University of California, Berkeley. For the development of practical computational materials design and its application to the improvement of energy storage technology.

Chen, Xiangli, independent consultant, Shanghai. For pioneering work in optical sensing and precision laser processing, and for leadership in globalizing industrial research and development.

Chong, Dianne, retired vice president, assembly, factory, and support technologies, Boeing Engineering, Operations, and Technology, Boeing Co., Bellevue, Wash. For advances in process and production technologies for composites in large commercial aerospace vehicles.

Entekhabi, Dara, Bacardi and Stockholm Water Foundations Professor, department of civil and environmental engineering and department of earth, atmospheric, and planetary sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge. For leadership in the hydrologic sciences including the scientific underpinnings for satellite observation of the Earth's water cycle.

Ewing, Rodney C., Frank Stanton Professor in Nuclear Security, Center for International Security and Cooperation, and professor, department of geological and environmental sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, Calif. For studies on the long-term behavior of complex ceramic materials to assess their suitability for engineered nuclear waste sequestration.

Gerngross, Tillman U., co-founder and chief executive officer, Adimab LLC, Lebanon, N.H. For founding and leading two successful biotechnology companies in the discovery and manufacture of biopharmaceuticals.

Gray III, George T. (Rusty), laboratory fellow, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, N.M. For contributions to the understanding of the dynamic and shock-loading deformation and damage response of materials.

Hammond, Paula Therese, David H. Koch Professor and department head, department of chemical engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge. For contributions to self-assembly of polyelectrolytes, colloids, and block copolymers at surfaces and interfaces for energy and health care applications.

Hastings, Daniel E., Cecil and Ida Green Education Professor, chief executive officer, and director, Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge. For contributions in spacecraft and space system-environment interactions, space system architecture, and leadership in aerospace research and education.

Hirschberg, Julia, Percy K. and Vida L.W. Hudson Professor of Computer Science, and chair, department of computer science, Columbia University, New York City. For contributions to the use of prosody in text-to-speech and spoken dialogue systems, and to audio browsing and retrieval.

Imran, Mir A., chairman and chief executive officer, Incube Ventures, San Jose, Calif. For his role in creating the first implantable cardiac defibrillator, and for developing multiple other technologies as inventor and entrepreneur.

Katsoulis, Dimitris E., senior research scientist, Dow Corning Corp., Midland, Mich. For foundational contributions to the characterization and creation of novel silicone resins, gels and elastomers, and catalysis for organosilanes.

King Liu, Tsu-Jae, TSMC Distinguished Professor in Microelectronics and chair, department of electrical engineering and computer sciences, University of California, Berkeley. For contributions to the fin field effect transistor (FinFET) and its application to nanometer complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) technology.

LeCun, Yann A., director, AI Research, Facebook, New York City. For developing convolutional neural networks and their applications in computer vision and other areas of artificial intelligence.

Ligler, George T., consultant, GTL Associates, Fuquay-Varina, N.C. For leadership and engineering innovation in specifying and implementing complex computer-based systems for aviation and the U.S. Census.

McCabe, Robert W., program director, division of chemical, bioengineering, environmental, and transport systems, National Science Foundation, Arlington, Va. For enabling ultra-clean vehicles through conceptual and practical advances in catalytic systems for the abatement of automotive emissions.

Moncarz, Piotr D., principal engineer, buildings and structures, Exponent, Menlo Park, Calif. For dedication to global improvement of the safety and reliability of engineering systems and to cooperation beyond political borders.

Monnier, John R., research professor, chemical engineering, University of South Carolina, Columbia. For the discovery and development of the silver-catalyzed epoxidation of non-allylic olefins to produce 3,4-epoxy-1-butene and other non-allylic olefin epoxides.

Narayan, Jagdish, John C.C. Fan Distinguished Chair Professor, department of materials science and engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh. For contributions in heteroepitaxial film growth by laser ablation in large misfit systems and new materials.

Nemirovski, Arkadi, John Hunter Chair and Professor, H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta. For the development of efficient algorithms for large-scale convex optimization problems.

Niemeier, Debbie A., professor, department of civil and environmental engineering, University of California, Davis. For developing groundbreaking tools to characterize the impact of transportation emissions on air quality and environmental justice.

Parlange, Marc Brendan, dean, faculty of applied science, and professor, department of civil engineering, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. For fundamental contributions to land-atmosphere modeling and leadership in field measurement campaigns over complex terrain.

Poston, Randall W., senior principal, Pivot Engineers, Austin, Texas. For development of diagnostic and repair technologies for concrete structures and leadership in concrete building code development.

Scheeres, Daniel Jay, distinguished professor and A. Richard Seebass Endowed Chair Professor in Aerospace Engineering Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder. For pioneering work on the motion of bodies in strongly perturbed environments such as near asteroids and comets.

Servedio, Dominick M., executive chairman, STV Group, New York City. For leadership and effective advocacy on behalf of the engineering and construction professions.

Slaughter, E. Sarah, chief executive officer and founder, Built Environment Coalition, Cambridge, Mass. For research and the development of technology to enhance the resiliency and sustainability of critical infrastructure systems.

Smith, Megan J., life member of the MIT Corporation, third U.S. Chief Technology Officer, and former assistant to the president, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, Washington, D.C. For leading technological innovation teams and efforts to increase diversity and inclusion in STEM industries both nationally and globally.

Solomon, Darlene Joy Spira, senior vice president and chief technology officer, Agilent Technologies, Santa Clara, Calif. For leadership in the development of innovative nucleic acid and microfluidic products for the life science and molecular diagnostic industries.

Spalart, Philippe R., senior technical fellow, Boeing Commercial Airplanes, Seattle. For development and application of a broad array of computational techniques for the prediction of aerodynamic turbulence and noise.

Turinsky, Paul J., professor, department of nuclear engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh. For the development of simulation technology for the economic operation, safety, and life extension of nuclear power stations.

Varghese, George, Chancellor’s Professor, department of computer science, University of California, Los Angeles. For network algorithmics that make the Internet faster, more secure, and more reliable.

Vautrinot, Suzanne M., president, Kilovolt Consulting Inc., San Antonio. For leading the creation of a revolutionary organization designed to provide the nation an enhanced cyber capability.

Voight, Barry, professor emeritus of geology and geological engineering, Pennsylvania State University, University Park. For contributions to the understanding, management, and mitigation of geologic hazards.

Zhang, Dongxiao (Don), dean of engineering and chair professor, water resources and petroleum engineering, Peking University, Beijing. For pioneering work in stochastic modeling of flow in porous media.

New Foreign Members

Alcocer, Sergio Manuel, research professor, Institute of Engineering, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City. For improvements to the seismic safety of buildings in developing countries through improved design standards and government policies.

Beven, Keith John, distinguished professor of hydrology, Lancaster Environmental Centre, Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom. For contributions to the understanding of hydrological processes and development of the foundations of modern hydrological modeling.

Foster, F. Stuart, professor and Canada Research Chair in ultrasound imaging, department of medical biophysics, University of Toronto, Toronto. For pioneering the field of high-frequency ultrasound and translating its technologies into clinical and preclinical imaging systems.

Fujino, Michimasa, president and chief executive officer, Honda Aircraft Co., Greensboro, N.C. For the creation of the HondaJet and formation of the Honda Aircraft Company.

Hadziioannou, Georges, University Professor Classe Exceptionelle, Laboratoire de Chimie des Polymères Organiques, Université de Bordeaux, Pessac, France. For foundational discoveries and insights enabling the development of polymers with advanced functionality and performance.

Hahn, Horst, director, Institute of Nanotechnology, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany. For contributions to the science and engineering of nanostructured materials with tailored and tunable properties.

Kataoka, Kazunori, professor, biomaterials, department of bioengineering, University of Tokyo, Tokyo. For pioneering contributions to the design of supramolecular nanostructures and their application to drug and gene delivery systems.

Kikuchi, Noboru, president and chief operating officer, Toyota Central R&D Labs Inc., Aichi, Japan. For contributions to theory and methods of computer-aided engineering and leadership in their applications in the automotive industry worldwide.

Kirchheim, Reiner, distinguished professor of the state of lower Saxony, University of Göettingen, Göettingen, Germany. For contributions to the thermodynamics and kinetics of hydrogen behavior in metals and solute/defect interactions in other materials.

O'Connor, Cyril Thomas, professor emeritus and senior research scholar, department of chemical engineering, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, South Africa. For contributions to the sustainable recovery of minerals from complex ores and for the global advancement of mineral processing technology.

Shum, Heung-Yeung, executive vice president, technology and research, Microsoft Corp., Redmond, Wash. For contributions to computer vision and computer graphics, and for leadership in industrial research and product development.

Sifakis, Joseph, professor, School of Computer and Communication Science, École Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland. For co-inventing model checking and for contributions to the development and verification of real-time and embedded systems.

Smith, Colin P., group president, Rolls-Royce PLC, Derbyshire, United Kingdom. For leadership in design, technologies, and manufacturing processes that enhance airworthiness, safety, and environmental sustainability of large aeroengines.

Vayenas, Constantinos G., professor, department of chemical engineering, University of Patras, Patras, Greece. For fundamental studies on electrochemical modification of catalytic activity leading to the industrial design and use of new promoted catalysts.